Let's explore the application of music theory within popular music! We hope this interactive tool will help you gain insight into the relationship between specific chord progressions and stylistic intent behind the music you love. This interface leverages the data scraped from guitar music for popular music avaialable on the website ultimate-guitar.com, organizing chord progressions observed based on genre, key, and Billboard Top 100 status. We hope this visualization helps guitar players and composers in the industry advance their understanding of the fundamentals of music and expand their creative comfort zone through exposure to chord progressions they might not have otherwise considered.
Pick a key or genre to explore the distribution of guitar chords across music within those parameters. Click on a chord to see what commonly comes next!